APPEAL COURT FINES MTN N15 MILLION OVER UNSOLICITED MESSAGES Appeal Court fines MTN N15 million over unsolicited messages and caller tunes on lawyer’s phoneThe Court of Appeal in Abuja has awarded N15 million as general damages against MTN Nigeria Communications Limited for disturbing its Nigerian customer’s phone number with unsolicited messages and callertunes, without the customer’s subscription to these services.The …

CUSTOMS HAS NO RIGHT TO CONFISCATE FOREIGN RICE IN OPEN MARKETS— COURT OF APPEAL The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has warned the Nigeria Customs Service against confiscating foreign rice in open markets. The court gave the order on Wednesday in a judgement following an appeal by Customs against the judgement of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, which discharged …

AT LAST, DELE FAROTIMI IS GRANTED BAIL A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ado Ekiti has granted N30 million bail to human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi The lawyer was arrested earlier in the month for allegedly defaming Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD. Farotimi, who was remanded in a correctional centre …

TINUBU REDEPLOYS 11 PERMANENT SECRETARIES The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF, has announced the redeployment of permanent secretaries. The redeployment was approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, according to a statement signed by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack. The federal permanent secretaries have been reassigned as …

HOW NIGERIAN SOLDIERS INVADED, DESTROYED MY RESIDENCE AT 2.30AM – UCHE ANYA, ENUGU AGENCY BOSS The Chairman of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, Rt. Hon. Uche Anya has narrated how soldiers from 82 Division of the Nigeria Army invaded his residence by 2.30am and destroyed his residence for carrying out a town planning regulation on an army property …

ENUGU GOVT MAPS OUT N146BN FOR EQUIPPING ITS SMART SCHOOLS IN 2025 The Enugu State government has allocated the sum of N146 billion for equipping the Smart Schools across the 260 political wards in the state, while N100 billion is for the construction of “200 Integrated Model Smart schools Comprising of three classroom block for Nursery, six classroom blocks for …

MARKETERS EXPECT CHEAPER PETROL AS DANGOTE CUTS PRICE TO N899.50k/LITRE There is cautious optimism among Nigerians over reduction in fuel price following the decision of Dangote Refinery to slash price in what it called a Christmas/New Year bonanza. Dangote had reduced the price to N899.50k per litre, to provide the much-needed relief for Nigerians ahead of the holiday season. In …

DSS DIDN’T INVITE STATISTICIAN-GENERAL – NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has denied reports that Adeniran Adeyemi, the Statistician-General of the Federation, was summoned by the Department of State Services (DSS) for questioning. The clarification comes amidst the recent release of a contentious report on ransom payments in Nigeria by the NBS, which revealed that Nigerians paid a staggering …

FG PLANS TO SLASH INFLATION FROM 34% TO 15% IN 2025 The federal government has unveiled its strategy to reduce inflation from the current 34 percent in 2024 to a targeted 15 percent by the end of 2025. This was disclosed by a source at the Budget Office of the Federation deeply involved in the 2025 budget preparations. The source …

KEMI BADENOCH AND THE NIGERIAN POLICE The police are a reflection of the Nigerian society, argues Joshua J. Omojuwa A casual observer was going to get away with thinking Kemi Badenoch had become the No. 1 hate figure for Nigerians on social media. Before the play that turned the tide, the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party was never going …

REVOKED ABUJA LAND DOESN’T BELONG TO ME – BUHARI Former President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed reports linking him to a plot of land which was revoked by the authorities of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Thursday evening, the former President clarified that the land was allocated to the Muhammadu …

GOVERNORS LACK POWER TO REMOVE LG CHAIRMEN – FG The federal government, through the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, has declared that governors lack the constitutional authority to suspend or remove local government chairmen from office. Fagbemi made the declaration while addressing journalists on Wednesday. His comments were in response to questions about the recent actions of …

PEOPLE CURSE ME, MY FAMILY OVER TAX REFORM BILLS – OYEDELE The Chairman, Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has stated that some Nigerians rain curses on him and his family over the tax reform bills. Oyedele spoke during an event for the presentation of the report of a technical committee set up by the League of …

TAX REFORM BILLS DIVIDE FEDERAL LAWMAKERS The ongoing debate surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s proposed tax reform bills has sparked division within the Nigerian House of Representatives, with northern lawmakers expressing concern over the legislation. While some lawmakers are eager to push the bills forward, leaders from northern Nigeria, including former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau, are calling for a review …

NORTH-WEST HIGHEST IN CRIME INCIDENTS, SOUTH-EAST LOWEST The Federal Government has stated that the North West recorded the highest crime incidence in the country with the Southeast having the lowest. The latest data compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is called Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey (CESPS), and according to a statement by Special Adviser to the …